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U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates talks with U.S. Air Force airmen deployed to the A-10 aircraft maintenance unit on Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Sept. 17, 2008.

BAGRAM AIRMEN

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates talks with U.S. Air Force airmen deployed to the A-10 aircraft maintenance unit on Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Sept. 17, 2008.

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